Why Does It Matter?
MAC’S CUSTOM CATERING, Eugene, Oregon
Mac’s Custom Catering, an award-winning catering business located in Eugene, Oregon, specializes in providing “only the best for you and your guest.” Mac’s Custom Catering has been in business for over 30 years and is experienced in providing catering services at weddings, corporate events, and large sit-down events. It offers several signature buffet options, including “Northwest Bounty,” “Hawaiian Luau,” and “Italian Fest.”
Imagine that you have been hired to set up the accounting system for a catering business such as Mac’s. What accounts would be included in the chart of accounts? As you list the accounts, identify the type of account. Is the account an asset, a liability, or owner’s equity?
Want to see the full answer?
Check out a sample textbook solutionChapter 1 Solutions
College Accounting
Additional Business Textbook Solutions
Cost Accounting (15th Edition)
Horngren's Accounting (11th Edition)
Financial Accounting
Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making
Financial Accounting (12th Edition) (What's New in Accounting)
Horngren's Financial & Managerial Accounting, The Financial Chapters (Book & Access Card)
- Responsibility in a restaurant. Paula Beane owns a restaurant franchise that is part of a chain of “southern homestyle” restaurants. One of the chain’s popular breakfast items is biscuits and gravy. Central Warehouse makes and freezes the biscuit dough, which it then sells to the franchise stores where it is thawed and baked in the individual stores by the cook. Each franchise also has a purchasing agent who orders the biscuits (and other items) based on expected demand. In March 2018, one of the freezers in Central Warehouse breaks down and biscuit production is reduced by 25% for 3 days. During those 3 days, Paula’s franchise runs out of biscuits but demand does not slow down. Paula’s franchise cook, Betty Baker, sends one of the kitchen helpers to the local grocery store to buy refrigerated ready-to-bake biscuits. Although the customers are kept happy, the refrigerated biscuits cost Paula’s franchise three times the cost of the Central Warehouse frozen biscuits, and the franchise…arrow_forwardDiscussion Prompt Steve and Linda Hom live in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Two years ago, they visited Thailand. Linda, a professional chef, was impressed with the cooking methods and the spices used in Thai food. Bartlesville does not have a Thai restaurant, and the Homs are contemplating opening one. Linda would supervise the cooking, and Steve would leave his current job to be the maître d'. The restaurant would serve dinner Tuesday through Saturday. Steve has noticed a restaurant for lease. The restaurant has seven tables, each of which can seat four. Tables can be moved together for a large party. Linda is planning on using each table twice each evening, and the restaurant will be open 50 weeks per year. The Homs have drawn up the following estimates: Average revenue, including beverages and $45 per meal desserts Average cost of food 15 per meal Chef's and dishwasker's salaries 5,100 per month Rent (premises, equipment) 4,000 per month Cleaning (linen, premises) Replacement of dishes,…arrow_forwardEat-n-Run Inc. owns and operates 10 food trucks (mobile kitchens) throughout metropolitan Los Angeles. Each food truck has a different food theme, such as Irish-Mexican fusion, traditional Mexican street food, Ethiopian cuisine, and Lebanese-Italian fusion. The company was founded three years ago by Juanita OBrien when she opened a single food truck with a unique menu. As her business has grown, she has become concerned about her ability to manage and control the business. OBrien describes how the company was built, its key success factors, and its recent growth: I built the company from the ground up. In the beginning, it was just me. I drove the truck, set the menu, bought the ingredients, prepared the meals, served the meals, cleaned the kitchen, and maintained the equipment. I made unique meals from quality ingredients and didnt serve anything that wasnt perfect. I changed my location daily and notified customers of my location via Twitter. As my customer base grew, I hired employees to help me in the truck. Then one day I realized that I had a formula that could be expanded to multiple trucks. Before I knew it, I had 10 trucks and was hiring people to do everything that I used to do by myself. Now, I work with my team to build the menu, set daily locations for the trucks, and manage the operations of the business. My business model is based on providing the highest-quality street food and charging more for it than other trucks. You wont get the cheapest meal at one of my trucks, but you will get the best. The superior quality allows me to price my meals a little bit higher than the other trucks. My employees are critical to my success. I pay them a better wage than they could make on other food trucks, and I expect more from them. I rely on them to maintain the quality that I established when I opened my first truck. Things are going great, but Im feeling overwhelmed. So far, the growth in sales has led to a growth in profitabilitybut Im getting nervous. If quality starts to fall off, my brand value erodes, and that could affect the prices that I charge for my meals and the success of my business. Create balanced scorecard metrics for Eat-n-Run Inc. Identify whether these measures best fit the learning and growth, internal processes, customer, or financial performance perspective of the balanced scorecard.arrow_forward
- Zara Catering Enterprise (ZCE) provides catering services for customers around Selangor, Malaysia. The services are categorized into two segments namely, (1) Budget package and (2) Premium package. Information on the menu for the two packages are as below: Budget Package Menu Cost Premium Package Menu Cost RM RM White rice 1.00 2 choices of rice White rice/ briyani/ nasi minyak 2.00 Fried chicken 3.50 2 choices of main dishes Chicken/ meet/ fish 7.00 Vegetable 1.00 2 choices of vegetables 2.00 Fruit 1.00 2 choices of fruits 2.00 Drinks 1.00 Beverages 1.00 Dessert 0.50 Desserts 1.00 ZCE uses job order costing method in calculating its cost of providing services based on customers’ orders. Labors are paid on the daily basis when ZCE have…arrow_forwardPaula Beane owns a restaurant franchise that is part of a chain of “southern homestyle” restaurants. One of the chain’s popular breakfast items is biscuits and gravy. Central Warehouse makes and freezes the biscuit dough, which it then sells to the franchise stores where it is thawed and baked in the individual stores by the cook. Each franchise also has a purchasing agent who orders the biscuits (and other items) based on expected demand. In March 2018, one of the freezers in Central Warehouse breaks down and biscuit production is reduced by 25% for 3 days. During those 3 days, Paula’s franchise runs out of biscuits but demand does not slow down. Paula’s franchise cook, Betty Baker, sends one of the kitchen helpers to the local grocery store to buy refrigerated ready-to-bake biscuits. Although the customers are kept happy, the refrigerated biscuits cost Paula’s franchise three times the cost of the Central Warehouse frozen biscuits, and the franchise loses money on this item for those…arrow_forwardPaula Beane owns a restaurant franchise that is part of a chain of “southern homestyle” restaurants. One of the chain’s popular breakfast items is biscuits and gravy. Central Warehouse makes and freezes the biscuit dough, which it then sells to the franchise stores where it is thawed and baked in the individual stores by the cook. Each franchise also has a purchasing agent who orders the biscuits (and other items) based on expected demand. In March 2018, one of the freezers in Central Warehouse breaks down and biscuit production is reduced by 25% for 3 days. During those 3 days, Paula’s franchise runs out of biscuits but demand does not slow down. Paula’s franchise cook, Betty Baker, sends one of the kitchen helpers to the local grocery store to buy refrigerated ready-to-bake biscuits. Although the customers are kept happy, the refrigerated biscuits cost Paula’s franchise three times the cost of the Central Warehouse frozen biscuits, and the franchise loses money on this item for those…arrow_forward
- Business Opportunity #1, Special Order: Another wedding cake company, Moon Dog Cake Company, has contacted Mr. Suncat with a special request. Moon Dog Cake Company needs some wedding cakes decorated. Moon Dog is proposing that they will bake the cake and deliver the undecorated wedding cakes to Suncat Cake Shop. Moon Dog is willing to pay Mr. Suncat $425 for each decorated wedding cake. Mr. Suncat knows that his Cake Shop has the capacity to take on the special order from Moon Dog Cake Company. Mr. Suncat also knows that the direct material and direct labor cost to decorate each wedding cake will be $375. Mr. Suncat’s manufacturing overhead per cake is $70.00 and that 65% of that amount is fixed. Should Mr. Suncat accept or reject Mood Dog Cake Company’s special request and why? Show all calculations to support your answer.arrow_forwardKrispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (KKD) is a leading retailer and wholesaler of doughnuts. Krispy Kreme owns or franchises more than 1,100 stores where the “hot" light tells you if doughnuts are cooking. Dunkin* Brands Group, Inc. (DNKN) is a leading franchisor of doughnut (Dunkin' Donuts) and ice cream (Baskin-Robbins) shops with more than 20,000 stores worldwide. Selected financial statement information for a recent year for both companies follows (in thousands): a. Determine the days' cash on hand for each company. Round all calculations to one decimal place.b. Which company appears to have the stronger cash liquidity position?arrow_forwardSuppose you manage the local Scoopy’s ice cream parlor. In addition to selling ice cream cones, you make large batches of a few flavors of milk shakes to sell throughout the day. Your parlor is chosen to test the company’s “Made-for-You” system. This new system enables patrons to customize their milk shakes by choosing different flavors. Customers like the new system and your staff appears to be adapting, but you wonder whether this new made-to-order system is as efficient as the old system in which you just made a few large batches. Efficiency is a special concern because your performance is evaluated in part on the restaurant’s efficient use of materials and labor. Your superiors consider efficiency variances greater than 5% to be unacceptable. You decide to look at your sales for a typical day. You find that the parlor used 390 pounds of ice cream and 72 hours of direct labor to produce and sell 2,000 shakes. The standard quantity allowed for a shake is 0.2 pound of ice cream and…arrow_forward
- Business Opportunity #2, Make or Buy: Moon Dog Cake Company’s request got Mr. Suncat to thinking! Suncat Cake Shop is well known throughout the Albuquerque area for their beautifully decorated wedding cakes. Mr. Suncat is now wondering if the Cake Shop should solely concentrate on decorating the wedding cakes instead of making, baking, and decorating the cakes. In talking with Moon Dog Cake Company, Mr. Moon Dog quoted a price of $85 to Mr. Suncat for an undecorated wedding cake. Mr. Suncat knows that his direct material and direct labor to just make and bake a wedding cake is $65 and that total manufacturing overhead to just make and bake a wedding cake is $70, of which 25% are variable costs. Should Mr. Suncat continue to make/bake the wedding cakes, or should he buy the undecorated wedding cakes from Moon Dog Cake Company and why? Show all calculations to support your answer.arrow_forwardGoodwill Bobby’s Donuts Donuts & Coffee opened its doors in 2018 on the corner of Geary and Masonic St. in San Francisco, CA. Originally, the owners Lindsey Kline and Carly Repko had planned on catering to the small businesses in the neighborhood and keeping the business a fun side business to their main day jobs. However, soon they found themselves competing with the major local players including the downtown Donuts Shop and other local bakeries in the area. As part of their success, on December 31, 2018 they decided to purchase an existing local donut shop “Bobby’s Donuts” to further positon themselves in the local market. After the acquisition, Bobby’s Donuts continued to operate as a separate company and met the conditions of being a separate reporting unit. The consideration paid on December 31, 2018 directly to the shareholders of Bobby’s Donuts in exchange for all shares was $50,000. The following accounting facts existed at the time of acquisition: During 2019, a…arrow_forwardGoodwill Bobby’s Donuts Donuts & Coffee opened its doors in 2018 on the corner of Geary and Masonic St. in San Francisco, CA. Originally, the owners Lindsey Kline and Carly Repko had planned on catering to the small businesses in the neighborhood and keeping the business a fun side business to their main day jobs. However, soon they found themselves competing with the major local players including the downtown Donuts Shop and other local bakeries in the area. As part of their success, on December 31, 2018 they decided to purchase an existing local donut shop “Bobby’s Donuts” to further positon themselves in the local market. After the acquisition, Bobby’s Donuts continued to operate as a separate company and met the conditions of being a separate reporting unit. The consideration paid on December 31, 2018 directly to the shareholders of Bobby’s Donuts in exchange for all shares was $50,000. The following accounting facts existed at the time of acquisition: Bobby's Donuts -…arrow_forward
- College Accounting (Book Only): A Career ApproachAccountingISBN:9781337280570Author:Scott, Cathy J.Publisher:South-Western College PubCornerstones of Cost Management (Cornerstones Ser...AccountingISBN:9781305970663Author:Don R. Hansen, Maryanne M. MowenPublisher:Cengage LearningIntermediate Accounting: Reporting And AnalysisAccountingISBN:9781337788281Author:James M. Wahlen, Jefferson P. Jones, Donald PagachPublisher:Cengage Learning
- Managerial AccountingAccountingISBN:9781337912020Author:Carl Warren, Ph.d. Cma William B. TaylerPublisher:South-Western College PubFinancial And Managerial AccountingAccountingISBN:9781337902663Author:WARREN, Carl S.Publisher:Cengage Learning,Essentials of Business Analytics (MindTap Course ...StatisticsISBN:9781305627734Author:Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran, Michael J. Fry, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, David R. AndersonPublisher:Cengage Learning